To ye Lviv. Collection of urban stories. (This Is Lviv)

"Lviv is a city not only of our history, Lviv is a city of life stories, ordinary private plots of lives of various people, and not only Lviv residents. It impacts many of us in a mystical way, it knows so many secrets! This project collected 23 stories about the city that does not leave anyone indifferent. Among these stories – as well as among the generations of authors – you can lay bridges, and you can look for what's implied between the lines. This is another attempt to read the city as a thrilling book, new pages of which are written every day."Photos by Olena Subach, Solomia Savka, Oleksandr Novitsky, Fifi Bristoche.In Ukrainian.Type of the edition: hard coverFormat: 166x215 mmNumber of pages: 240, illustratedPublisher: Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, Lviv

This book deals with imaginary geography, symbolic cognition of space by means of culture – based on the example of analysis of works by Sofia and Yuriy Andrukhovych, Zhadan, Lys, Rafeenko, Shklyar. The literary topography of the terrain is presented in three projections: memorial location images; the war in its hybrid aspect; the phenomenon of "non-places"..

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